skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have read stories about almost any European country wherein it is claimed that homelessness is a choice, and that there are facilities that the homeless aren't utilizing, because they præfer to the homeless or are plain stupid.

In many of those cases the actual situation is more complicated and the actual protocol is so involved and complicated that it is very hard for a homeless man to research.
A bigger challenge is that arguments on issues are often actually a proxy for some deeper cause: climate change debates ostensibly are about science, but seem mostly about whether we redistribute wealth or exercise control over people. Same with e.g. wearing masks. People try to craft arguments based on science, but the science is almost as irrelevant as it is obvious, the real question people are debating is perspective on how government can limit freedom.

People like to hide behind "science says this" because there is usually objective science available, but science provides facts about cause and effect, not priorities, which is what leads to debate, and often blatant distortion of facts. I think a bigger challenge than presenting both sides of an argument is actually getting to the core of what is being debated.
Makes me ill but I was very interested in seeing what it looked like.

I also get VR sickness is some VR games so I'm sure its for the same reason, if I scroll down a lot my brain says I should be falling. No issues without the blur.
> “Google’s threat to withdraw its search engine from Australia is chilling to anyone who cares about democracy.”

Is it? Or have they just realised they may have just stopped the business model that has kept search engines free?

Even if you think the business model survives, how is this even close to chilling? So you get competitors in its place. How does that hurt democracy?

What hurts democracy is Media companies lobbying for laws that suit only them. Giving them money for their content won't make them produce actual news.

If they want to be paid extra for listing, then that should make them rank lower. That's how business works - their news is more costly, and therefore of lower value. This law smacks of protectionism.
RemoteLeaf – Sharing my first Year in Review post
I'm sorry but HN has gotten really toxic over the years. Flagging and censorship is a big concern here as there is an asymmetric balance of power that is clearly being abused.

Somebody doesn't agree with me politically? flagged & downvoted.

Somebody is a potential competitor? flagged & downvoted.

Somebody drives a Ferrari and I don't? flagged, downvoted (recently, somebody on HN tried to doxx me with no moderator taking action)

I miss the days when there were really good discussions, while those are still around, HN increasingly feels like a competition of "I am smart because X so Y". There appears to be a cabal especially around specific topics like Bitcoin or their affiliated companies.

edit: heh case in point. now all of my other comments are being brigaded & downvoted. Lots of bitterness and negative vibes here that is only going to impede growth. I will pray for you.
How old is this? It's still using the old Chrome, Firefox, and Safari icons from pre-2011. Though, it is a testament to HN that it still works.
Living in NYC after Hurricane Sandy, I spent a lot of time biking past mile+ gas lines. Gas stations ran out for a significant period of time and National Guard fuel trucks were eventually deployed, but didn't have enough for all comers.
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Have you ever considered open sourcing this and having it be a wikipedia of learning map?
What about a clearly deliniated box with 5 items: 3 with 0 upvotes, 1 with <10 upvotes, and one with more than 10 but not enough to hit the frontpage.

That way there's always something interesting in the box, and everyone is encouraged to contribute to arbitrating the new posts a bit more.

edit: I guess posts that are upvoted should have a significant higher exposure, to reward them with a better chance of hitting FP, so if there's too many upvoted posts it could be 2-2-1. Oh and of course there should be a profile checkbox to turn the whole thing off, wouldn't want to impose ourselves.
In areas of the USA with the average temperatures of Finland there isn't much (any?) homelessness either.
> It's really like the email system

Ah! I see where your inspiration is coming from! It's really interesting when you think of it that way!

I think there is a true need for a decentralized immutable data store (basically get/put/list operations), and it could serve a vast number of use cases. It enables simple algorithmic memoization, complete reproducibility of ML models, and datasets shareability. The only problem is we lack practical solutions. Maybe Condensation could help, or maybe not. In any case, it's good to see more alternative to traditional datastore that are not "git for data".
It clearly doesn't though.

Obesity and heart disease have been killing far more people in the US than covid and yet Mcdonalds and Coke advertisements are everywhere inbetween television entertainment.

Also note obesity/heart disease are among the greatest risk factors of poor health outcomes for covid.

Why is there little to no mention of eating healthy and exercising in the government's health guidelines to combat this threat?

There are countless other examples of bureaucrats caring more about money and power than public health - while putting on the appearance of caring for public health. See also: the war on drugs.
Housing first is an approach conceived in the U.S. but for political reasons not as widely adopted as it should be. 99pi did a fascinating podcast series about the homelessness problem in oakland and how housing first fits into the picture. My preconceived notions of why people are homeless were definitely upended.

https://99percentinvisible.org/need/
Yes. This is very exiting.

The ruling creates real incentives to attack real problems, instead of brushing them out of sight.
Or worse cases, where there's more than 2 sides and design decision stops you from noticing it.
I'm sorry but I fail to see the point of this. you can choose to disable cookies, will you be able to disable this new thing? if so, what's the big deal about it, other than the same principle with a different name, probably to avoid some EU legislation.

Advertisers and trackers have been doing the same thing this thing is supposed to do for years. And where will they implement it? the only way would be at the application level, so every browser now also has to implement internal tracking services to aggregate all the data in their flocs, to then come back to the user to spice up their request? come on...

I'll keep supporting efforts to make the Internet a more privacy focused place. Advertisers have been buying TV ads for decades and I my TV hasn't asked me what I want to share with it, yet.
Like many kids, I learned about Krakatoa from William Pene du Bois' 1948 Newbery Award-winning YA novel "The Twenty-One Balloons" [0]. The story is about a fantastical steampunk civilization hidden on Krakatoa, which (spoiler) is eventually destroyed in the eruption. The book is an absolute trip , figuratively and literally - recommended for all ages!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-One-Balloons-Puffin-Modern-Cla...
Hi HN! Some of you may remember @BurntSushi's pdoc tool, a lightweight alternative to Sphinx. We're a bit in an unfortunate situation with a hostile work assuming our name [1], but I figured that we shouldn't give in and continue the legacy of that tool. Long story short, we have just published a major new "modern Python 3" release, which hopefully makes pdoc a really compelling option again. :-)

[1] https://github.com/mitmproxy/pdoc#pdoc-vs-pdoc3
I think it's unrelated, people like that are not ready to function 'normally', they need a shelter, asylum, hospital. It's an emotional problem more than material.
I don't see how this could work without a downvote button.
It's not just about the processing. To match human vision, cameras would need to be able to swivel and to adjust their focus extremely quickly. Animal eyes are a lot more than static cameras.
So the proposition in this article is that Murdoch is just using this to enrich himself, at the expense of Google and Facebook specifically.

What do you call a competition where you want both sides to somehow lose?
It is open source https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge

As for learning map idea, I want to do it but not as part of the wiki but as a general purpose tool for mapping/tracking knowledge. It's also open source.

https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything
China was at the same level, or higher, in development as Europe in 1600.

By 1700, and certainly by 1800, Europe's interest in science, which then led to developments in advances in technology. This technology is what allowed the "white men on awesome ships with awesome guns" to have their way.

Perhaps if China was so top-down they could have also developed themselves more.

Toby Huff examines this disparity in his books Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution. A Global Perspective and The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West. The telescope was embraced in the West, but hardly used (except with a few isolate individuals) in the other major cultures in the 1600s.
Thanks, I edited my post.
It's internal testing. I don't think they actually want to encourage people watching.
Not here in Israel. We're in our third lockdown and they keep extending it (it was supposed to be two weeks...I can't keep track of how many times its been extended).

I was sitting in the park in a riverbank the other day, cops patrolled and asked people where they lived. Whoever you're with must live in the same household as you, and you may not be more than a km from home. I didn't see anyone get fined (although I believe they have the discretion to do so) but I saw some groups of friends be dispersed by the police.
OTW has been in my RSS feeds for a few years. Definitely one of my favs. The maintainer has had reduced output for a while, due to some health issues (used to be three cool finds per day).

I’ve found a lot of slick command line utilities here. It’s worth going through the backlog. I hope the maintainer is able to get back to the steady stream that initially drew me in.

For those put off by Tumblr throwing a banner, ignore the bs of that platform and enjoy the content. There’s some gold to be found.
Poorer author experience maybe. The end user experience will likely be better. And the business results of using a proper CRM and audience engagement product will be far superior.
Would this work for mobile device users?
I allow non-web-making spiders to stay inside, and I escort non-venomous web-making spiders outside. Anything venomous that can come back around and hurt me or my family gets a quick warrior's death.
The USSR ran enterprises at a loss and kept workers idle though. And then their economy and government collapsed.

Not exactly a recipe for success.
Yes, that's std::env::args[0], however a higher level wrapper (I prefer structopt[1]) makes it trivial to produce nice usage output etc.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/env/fn.args.html

[1] https://github.com/TeXitoi/structopt
What if the necessary change is something like lowering the standard of living in order to reduce net resource consumption? If people will never voluntarily do that, then how do you propose to sell that as leading to a sunny future?

This might be why these articles are never positive. Because there isn't a solution that people will like or vote for. No one is going to publish your article if it says we need to impose limits on births or reduce everyone's standard of living to that of sub-Saharan Africa.

> And in the western democracies, you (by design), won’t get dramatic, sweeping change until there’s broad bottom-up support.

Yes, this is precisely why there won't be the necessary change. And it's a great argument against democracy.
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You do not "need a framework" to build simple CLI tools in Rust. Most people use a command line argument parser, the most popular being clap [0]. Or you can just use std::env directly.

0: https://github.com/clap-rs/clap
> Most new post are just too bad. (I've seen them.) People would write angry comment complaining that they are in the front page.

Maybe weigh them by submitter's karma.
Not to detract from your point re competition, but isn't DameJidlo one of the brands of Delivery Hero? Do they have an engineering office in Czechia?
If they don't cause harm to other people, you can't really force them or tell them they are living their life wrong.
How about having the per-user option to make HN show the new page as the default, as reminder to have a look at it before going to the real homepage?
I’m doomed :) I posted on another comment but there are other more passive streaks in place too. I only have 2-3 apps on the Home Screen and a 6 app “Siri suggested” widget that cycles the apps based on how I use my phone. These means I’m training the iOS algo to “prompt” these healthier app uses and they show up.

It seems silly, why not just put those apps on the Home Screen? For me, there’s something to the passive nature that reinforces the “this is what I do” vs “this is what I have to do” that keeps me on track.
I'm not saying you can necessarily do anything; in some cases you can't. I'm just saying that things might not be under those people's voluntary control and decision-making either once mental health issues or substance abuse problems go far enough.
Oil dependence is only one factor of it, another factor is EV itself obviously has a bright future market, and it's a very good opportunity to take the advantage now.

It's very hard to compete with traditional car industry - the brands are very well established. However traditional brands moves rather slow on EV because all kinds of their own issues. EV is the perfect opportunity for Chinese to jump in the market and take the first mover advantage.

When there's any big change in any industry, the market would be shuffled, and there's always opportunity for China to take. It's as simple as that for the current world.

I believe the same thing could also be said on semi-conductors industry soon. There were very few attempts earlier and ended up pretty ugly, because it was just not economic feasible to compete with Intel or Qualcomm a decade ago - if it's only 60% effective with the higher cost and same price nobody would buy it. But recently Apple released M1 and make everyone in industry start to reconsider alternative architectures - which may eventually led China to be an important player in the next decade.
Have you heard about the new HN yet? If not, by the time you do hear about it, it will be the old HN, so...
It's signed by a really wide array of people, virologists but also artists, historians and social scientists.

The idea is really not to lock everybody into their home. Current mandatory lockdowns in Europe affect mostly the private area. There are nightly curfews and you sometimes can't go alone into the forrest, but you have to go to the office if your boss says so.

Rather, the idea is to 1) stop unneccessary contact in the workplace, and 2) do so in a solidaric fashion, protecting those who still have to go to work or those who are affected most by the loss of income.

For example, there is currently an outbreak at Airbus in Germany. I can't understand why people still have to work there ATM.

I'd gladly sacrifice some industrial production and growth - meaning I'll have to wait a few months longer for the new TV or Car I wanted to buy - if we can the the pandemic under better control and resume somewhat normal life earlier.
You are technically correct (the best kind of correct) but the Earth IS round for most intents and purposes. Only people who need very accurate maps care that it is not.

If the Earth was shrunk down to bowling ball size and taken to a lane it would be just as spherical as any of the other balls.
Pretty much the only way I ever browse HN! At least with sorting by time I'm more organized about my procrastination. Big thanks to the creator(s?)!
"for whom the only reason they continue to be homeless is they can't do anything other than figure out what they're gonna eat that day"

I'm not sure I believe this. Why did they become homeless in first place? With most there is an underlying issue. It might be that they are a felon, addict, or other medical issue. It's not that hard to ask for a job while also asking for money or food. Especially if you're already going to food establishment dumpster or begging outside of them.

The person I know the best who homeless had a combination of issues. He was in a coma and lost his job. He was also required to pay child support and the bank account ran dry during that time. A warrant was issued and he was arrested. You can't find any "good" jobs with a record and warrants being issued. He basically gave up on the system and finds it easier to just let family support him.
Unfortunately I would imagine that it's still easier to spread a narrative blaming the EU than to attack the real problems.
I think several issues are frequently conflated here.

1. Could the 737 MAX be certified without MCAS?

1b. Could the 737 MAX be certified within the existing 737 family without MCAS?

2. Could the 737 MAX be flown safely under normal circumstances without MCAS?

3. Could the 737 MAX be flown safely under exceptional circumstances by a competent pilot without MCAS?

3b. Could the 737 MAX be flown safely under exceptional circumstances by an average pilot without MCAS?

(Note: By competent, I mean a hypothetical "no human errors" pilot. I don't mean to imply that the real pilots were bad or are to be blamed for the crashes; and I am fully aware that systems must be built taking into account that minor operator error will invariably happen.)

As far as I can tell:

1. No, the MAX would not be certifiable without MCAS, due to the requirement that AoA not increase without stick forces increase in certain flight regimes.

1b. No, if the MAX can't be certified, it can't be grandfathered into the existing certificate.

2. Yeah, the MAX would fly perfectly fine in almost all flight regimes without MCAS.

3a. Yeah, even in exceptional flight regimes, a competent pilot could fly the MAX perfectly fine. He'd have to recognise an uncommanded AoA increase and push the stick forward.

3b. Maybe. A mediocre pilot might struggle with the MAX in certain flight regimes, due to its pitch-up tendencies.

Interestingly, a competent pilot could also deal with the erroneously deployed MCAS (recognise the ran away stab trim condition, pull the circuit breaker), as Boeing explicitly assumed.

> mask the reality that the plane needed a recertification due to its inadequate aerodynamics

That's not accurate, I'd say. There was no "masking" going on. I think the aerodynamics are fine, largely, and MCAS was added to fulfil a certification requirement.
You definitely don't need a framework. This seems to be aimed at extras like fancy logging, config file management, and CI setup.
Google only cares about privacy, when it disproportionately hurts the competition. Meanwhile they are using their leverage to infect web standards with a tracking proposal, and they market it as a privacy win.

Features used exclusively for tracking have no place among web standards, cohort-based or otherwise.
I think it's interesting how they use Fox News in the title, not News Corp. Sadly the makes it clear this is a agenda article not really about the people. The statement is made that the funds raised should goto the Australia citizens and not the news producers who's content is being used by big tech without compensation. While the law maybe bad it's not made clear by the anti "Fox News" agenda of the author, sadly this is what most news has come to not reporting but reporter agenda pieces.

Quick update, it's also very clear why ABC was left out from Wikipedia "The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's national broadcaster, founded in 1929. It is principally funded by the direct grants from the Australian government and is administered by a board appointed by the government of the day"
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It says, “ Though all iPhone 12 models contain more magnets than prior iPhone models, they’re not expected to pose a greater risk of magnetic interference to medical devices than prior iPhone models.” doesn’t that mean that they are saying iPhone 12 is poses no greater risk than the first iPhone released and every iPhone release in between for over a decade? So no new dangers just they are now formally writing about the risk all iPhones have always had for people with pacemakers?
I'm not familiar with Finland but to those people have access to mental health services? In the US, a lot of folks who are addicted to drugs and alcohol are written off as moral failures when in reality, the drugs and alcohol are simply used to self medicate and numb the pain of their lives.

I'm not saying there shouldn't be any accountability for addicts, but the fact that we completely write them off as a society says more about us than it does about them.
Incredibly my ICQ account from 1999 is still working. I just logged in probably for the first time since 2006. Most of my contacts have vanished though. Only four left of about 50.
Speech recognition happens locally in chrome or sent to google?
Of course, std::env::args: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/env/fn.args.html

What clap gives you is something more like Python's argparse, which offers things like convenient parsing, automatically generated manpages and error/usage messages, etc.
I don't understand why so many people are flagging this post, when it caused 8 different articles (which are ranking above it) to get the front page. If anything, it should rank above the articles it helped get to the front page.
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Source? My understanding is that all MAX have dual AoA, and all MAX used only one of them for MCAS.
small addition which should clarify some more the issue:
romani == gypsy
There's also a lot of "brigading" -- mass flags and downvoting of everything an individual has posted or commented on.
Accessibility issues are feature requests not bugs
Slack Incident Jan 4 2021 Root Cause Analysis [pdf]
Investigating how Romanians often think and talk about the Roma people in their country may be more harmful to their reputation than thinking the beggars are non-Roma Romanians.
I call it "American politics", but I'm sure there's an "X's Choice" a la Sophie or Hobson for it.
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More easiest way to “lose weight”
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Personally, I see these issues purely as “buy the dip” investment opportunities. For many speculative investors, the crazy volatility from factors like these is what makes crypto attractive. I see a deeply undervalued long-term value proposition for cryptocurrency, where the big risks for today involve the minefield of manipulation issues that have to be survived to get to the other side where the assets appreciate hugely due to a true valuation mechanism, no longer wanton speculation.

In other words, I’ll be happy if bitcoin crashes from Tether (I believe it will, probably to well under $20,000) - that is nothing more than a huge buying opportunity.